"Pompeii: The Exhibition" returns to the Science Center on May 16, featuring 61 new artifacts and interactive elements ...

And Pompeii would provide another kind of window into the ancient world, not awe-inspiring ruins but the remains of a living city suddenly buried and preserved, unknown, for almost two millennia.

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one ...

Instead, they believe it was created by a highly skilled artisan trained at Teotihuacan -- the formidable ancient power whose seat was located 630 miles west, outside modern-day Mexico City.

Sometimes distinguishing a tell’s layers is a subtle art, but a burn layer ... of our own permanence. In the ancient world, buildings were sometimes rebuilt on the same foundations, but not ...

Located at the base of the volcano Mount Vesuvius, near what is now modern-day Naples, Pompeii was a thriving ancient Roman city. Under the Romans ... However, there is also a fair amount of art, ...